The Organic Climber – Vegetarian running, cycling, swimming, rock climbing and raw foods.

I spent this past weekend hanging out in Austin with friends, in fact, it was the same friends that first peaked my interested in raw foods. On Sunday morning before church we made a really delicious smoothie. It just so happened that the night before they held a game night and one of the participants brought grapes to snack on. There ended up being a lot left over and we used them in our smoothie the next morning.

Grapes alone weren’t going to be enough, so we ended up adding raspberries, banana, hemp milk and vanilla flavored hemp protein. I didn’t record the exact ratios, but there were more grapes than the other ingredients, we also made enough for four people at once, so I will give my best guess for a single serving.

The Recipe

½ cup of grapes
¼ cup of raspberries
½ banana
¾ cup of hemp milk
2 TBSP of vanilla hemp protein powder*
*Alternatively you could use regular hemp seed protein and add about a teaspoon or more of vanilla extract.

This smoothie was tantalizingly delicious! The added vanilla flavor (along with the hemp milk) was perhaps the best part. I had never thought about using flavored hemp protein powder, but I think I will definitely have to add that to the mix. I apologize there is no photo for this one. Perhaps I will make another one on my own later this week and take a photo.

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RAW Food, Smoothie Tuesday by OrganicClimber
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Experimenting with smoothies is always fun for me. I usually end up discovering my best smoothies when I run out of mixed berries, which is what I make my daily smoothies out of. Once I run out of those I am forced to get creative.  This particular smoothie was one of those moments. I had just been to Whole Foods but forgot to pick up frozen berries, but I still had a package of frozen mangoes in the freezer. During my trip to Whole Foods I had picked up a batch of rainbow chard.

Rainbow chard can be identified by it’s large fan like leaves. The base of the step is usually multicolored – pink, red, orange and yellow, the leaves are a dark green with red veins and stalks.  Rainbow chard wilts quickly though, so be sure you plan on using it within a couple of days if you decide to purchase some.  This particular chard is also sweeter than most, thus making it idea for smoothies. Unlike kale, you will barely notice it’s there.

The Recipe:

• Two large Rainbow Chard leaves (or your choice of greens)

• 5oz of Frozen Mango (half a 10oz package)

• 1 banana

• 3 TBSP of Almond Butter

• 4 TBSP of RAW Honey

• 1 Cup of Vanilla Hemp Seed Milk

• 4 TBSP of Hemp Seed Protein Powder (optional)

Combine all ingredients in a high speed blender (I use a Vita-Mix) and blend until smooth.

RAW Food, Smoothie Tuesday by OrganicClimber
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